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Meg Wolitzer is a novelist whose most recent works include The Uncoupling and a book for young readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.
You know how people talk about so-called gateway drugs — drugs that lead to harder ones? I think some books can be considered gateway books, because reading them leads you to start reading other books that are similar but more intense. Lisa, Bright and Dark, John Neufeld's 1969 novel for young adults, is one of these.
I credit this novel, which I read at age 13, to leading me, a few years later, to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, which would go on to become an essential book in my life. Lisa, Bright and Dark was like The Bell Jar's little sister, an easier-to-read, less literary, slightly less harrowing look at mental illness, meant for younger readers.
The thing is, when you're a teenage girl and you read about girls who fall apart, whether it's through depression, as in the Plath, or through a more nebulously defined mental illness, as in the Neufeld, you definitely start to wonder if the same thing might happen to you.
Lisa, Bright and Dark is about a group of kids who are all worried about their friend Lisa Shilling. Lisa has her "bright" days, when she's fun to be around, and her "dark" days, when she does and says things that don't make sense. Her friends, one of whom narrates most of the book, try desperately to get the adults in their midst to take notice and help Lisa. But none of the grown-ups seem to care, even as Lisa gets sicker and sicker — finally, in a scene that's the dramatic centerpiece of the book, walking through a pane of glass.
I never forgot that glass. I feared that I, too, might go mad and do something equally shocking. I looked critically at my parents across the dinner table, wondering if they would take me seriously if I told them, as Lisa tells her parents, that I needed help. I think the fear of losing one's mind is a pretty common one for a teenager, but I think the more important idea that this book brought out in me was that, if I did fall apart, I would be taken care of. Even though Lisa's parents are total washouts in this department, her friends really come through for her, helping her to the best of their ability and getting her a psychiatrist, who will probably save her life.
That feeling of wanting to be taken care of predated my love for this novel, or for any young adult novels. When I was 8 years old and didn't feel well, my mother took my temperature. As soon as she left the room, I held the thermometer up to the light, sending the mercury up to 108. My mother almost fainted when she saw it, but all I had wanted was a little attention for being sicker than I really was.
Lisa Shilling was sick, really sick, and so, in a different way, was Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar. And so, of course, was Sylvia Plath. But for me, who was not mentally ill and who, at age 13, was just trying figure out what an inner life consisted of — its idiosyncrasies and fragilities — Lisa, Bright and Dark was a gateway, no, a doorway, with its own gleaming pane of glass that I was very relieved never to walk through.
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Now, the latest entry in our series for young teens, PG-13, and we're talking about books, not movies. It's during these early adolescent years that young readers really start to crave adult ideas. When author Meg Wolitzer was at that age, she discovered a book about mental illness, one that really transformed her thinking. The book is called "Lisa, Bright and Dark."
MEG WOLITZER, BYLINE: You know how people talk about gateway drugs, the ones that aren't so bad, but that lead you to harder ones? I think some books are like that. Reading them pushes you toward other books that are similar, but more intense. "Lisa, Bright and Dark" was that for me. It's a young adult novel from 1969, and it was written by John Neufeld. I read it when I was 13 and I credit it with leading me to "The Bell Jar" a few years later, which was an essential book in my life.
"Lisa, Bright and Dark" was like "The Bell Jar's" little sister. It's easier to read, less literary and slightly less harrowing, but it's the same kind of look at mental illness. The thing is, when you're a teenager and you read about girls who fall apart, you definitely start to wonder if the same thing might happen to you.
"Lisa, Bright and Dark" is about a group of kids who are all worried about their friend, Lisa Shilling. She has her bright days when she's fun to be around and her dark days when she does and says things that don't make sense. The friends try desperately to get adults to notice and help Lisa, but nobody seems to care.
Lisa gets more and more unhinged. And, finally, towards the end of the book, she walks through a pane of glass. I never forgot that glass. I worried that I also might go mad and do something equally shocking. I think the fear of losing your mind is a pretty common one for teenagers. But for me, who is not mentally ill and who, at age 13, was just trying to figure out what an inner life was all about, "Lisa, Bright and Dark" was a gateway. No, a doorway with its own gleaming pane of glass that I was very relieved never to walk through.
CORNISH: Author Meg Wolitzer. Her most recent book, "The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman," is for young readers. She recommended "Lisa, Bright and Dark" by John Neufeld, which led her to Sylvia Plath's book, "The Bell Jar." You can find more PG-13 reading recommendations at our website. There's also a list of summer reads from our critics and correspondents. That's at NPRBooks.org.
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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By David Morgan and Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The race intensified on Monday between Republicans trying to discredit President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and officials trying to repair the flawed website crucial to the success of his policy reform.
While Obama administration officials said they had made significant improvements to HealthCare.gov, Republicans began appealing to the public on Monday for personal accounts of negative experiences with the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.
The government has promised the site will be operating smoothly for the vast majority of users by November 30, so that potentially millions of people can enroll by a December 15 deadline for coverage that would begin on January 1.
"Eventually it's going to be the easiest place to shop for healthcare," Obama told a call on Monday put together by Organizing for Action, the group that grew out of his 2012 re-election campaign.
Obama said the site was getting better every week, but urged supporters to help get people signed up for care by mail, phone, and in person as well.
Congressional aides say the strategy by Republicans in the House of Representatives is aimed at putting a more human aspect to opposition arguments that have been largely abstract up to now.
"Facing hardships as a result of Obamacare? We want to hear your story," said a message posted to the website of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a panel led by Republican Representative Fred Upton, whose bill to allow insurers to renew canceled insurance policies won approval on Friday from House lawmakers, including 39 Democrats.
A similar bill, sponsored by six Democrats in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, appeared to be on hold for the time being, thanks partly to Obama's decision last week to let people keep old health insurance policies for the time being.
That left Senate Republicans searching for other vehicles to put Senate Democrats on the spot over Obamacare, particularly members facing competitive re-election races in November 2014.
Among the options being considered, according to a Senate Republican leadership aide, is attaching an Obamacare repeal measure to some other bill, ideally something Democrats support, such as a proposal to raise the minimum wage.
The problem-plagued rollout that began on October 1 has hurt the popularity of the healthcare initiative, but the decline has been fairly modest, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Monday.
Forty-one percent of Americans expressed support for the healthcare law in a survey conducted from Thursday to Monday. That was down 3 percentage points from a Reuters/Ipsos survey taken from September 27 to October 1.
Opposition to the law stood at 59 percent in the latest poll, versus 56 percent in the previous survey.
"There has been some shift ... but the shift has been small," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.
While Obama administration officials, including website project manager Henry Chao, said they were making steady progress in improving the website, the repairs cited by officials do not resolve some of the thorniest problems, including fixes needed to allow insurers, Web brokers and insurance agents to help meet the enrollment challenge.
Outside technical experts still believe the website is unlikely to function well under high volumes.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the government was also moving forward to develop "additional channels" for signing up, including "direct enrollment" through insurance companies.
"We reconfigured various system components to improve site responsiveness. This has increased performance across the site," Chao, deputy chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in written testimony submitted to a House of Representatives oversight subcommittee.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton, Richard Cowan and Jeff Mason in Washington and Curtis Skinner in New York; Editing by Fred Barbash, Grant McCool and Peter Cooney)

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7 minute Eggless Chocolate Cake
An amazingly delicious moist cake prepared with 7 ingredients and cooked for 7 minutes in a microwave. Oh so chocolate-y and super yummy!!7 minute Eggless Chocolate Cake
Craving for something chocolate-y tonight and have very limited time on hand then give this amazingly delicious 7 minute Eggless Chocolate cake recipe a try. This cake is so moist and chocolate-y that I bet no one can keep their hands off it.
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This cake is prepared using self rising flour, no self rising flour on hand, try making at home. Combine everything in a bowl. Fill the bowl half way with the batter, keep room for it to rise. Also tap the bowl on the counter before baking, as doing so will release the air trapped inside.
This cake cooks in a very different way. First the sides will rise making a crater/well in the center and then the center will rise. Please do not open the microwave during baking process. Cake will finish up beautifully – be very careful to not overcook this cake!
Allow the cake to rest in the bowl for at least 10 minutes before inverting onto a plate. To speed up the process place a wet towel underneath the warm bowl and once the bowl is comfortable to touch flip it over.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – The 21st-ranked Florida State University softball team takes to the road again as it travels to Clearwater and Tampa, Fla., for five games at the USF Tournament taking place this weekend at both the Eddie C. Moore Complex and at USF Softball Stadium.
The Seminoles (21-3, 3-0) begin the weekend with an exhibition versus the Dutch National Team on Friday at 6:45 p.m. at USF Softball Stadium in Tampa, Fla. On Saturday, FSU begins tournament play with matchups against Northwestern (11:15 a.m.) and Fairfield (1:45 p.m.) at Field No. 4 at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater.
FSU wraps up the tournament on Sunday as it battles Rutgers at the USF Softball Stadium at 11:15 a.m., followed by a 1:30 p.m. contest against No. 23 USF that also takes place at its home facility in Tampa.
"We're excited for the competition that we will be facing this weekend. I think our team has prepared well and we'll have to give the maximum effort to come away satisfied," head coach Lonni Alameda said. "We're looking to continue what has been set for us this season with Monica (Perry), Lacey (Waldrop), Bailey (Schinella) and Jessica (Nori) in the circle, and hopefully our offense continues to make strides."
Based on the latest NCAA statistics released Tuesday, the Seminoles are eighth nationally with a 1.00 earned run average. Redshirt junior pitcher Monica Perry came off another strong outing in FSU's 1-0 win over Chattanooga on Tuesday, throwing her second shutout of the season. Perry is on a streak of 34.1 innings pitched without allowing an earned run.
Sophomore centerfielder Courtney Senas leads FSU with a .338 batting average, showing four doubles, 10 RBIs and 15 runs scored. Redshirt senior Mallory Borden has been consistent at the plate, hitting .300 with one home run, 12 RBIs, two triples and five doubles.
Alameda is looking to reach 300 career victories this weekend, as she shows a 298-223 career record that includes five seasons as the head coach at UNLV. She is also seeking her 11th victory over a nationally-ranked opponent while coaching FSU, having defeating 10 Top-25 clubs since joining the Garnet and Gold in 2009.
Tournament host and nationally-ranked USF has not faced FSU since the 1999 season. The Seminoles lead the all-time series, 38-12, with both teams splitting their last four meetings.
Bulls (20-4) pitcher Sarah Nevins was honored as this week's Louisville Slugger Division I National Player of the Week, an award won by Perry two weeks ago. Nevin threw consecutive no-hitters last week, including a perfect game against Toledo, and is currently on a streak of 33.1 consecutive shutout innings pitched.
FSU leads Northwestern by a 6-2 margin in the all-time series, but fell to the Wildcats (7-11) last season in Palm Springs, Calif. The Seminoles face another BIG EAST opponent in Rutgers, owning a 7-0 record all-time record versus the Scarlet Knights (7-11).
The matchup between FSU and Fairfield will be the first meeting between both schools.
With exception to the exhibition contest on Friday, fans can follow the action this weekend on CBS GameTracker, as well as through FSU Softball's official Twitter handle – @FSU_Softball.


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Newtown police chief meets with Obama
WASHINGTON -- President Obama met Monday with the police chief of Newtown and other law enforcement officers from around the country to urge congressional approval of gun measures that he said would prevent more mass violence.
Obama invited Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe and the others to the White House to tout the administration's efforts to set stricter rules for gun ownership in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students and six adults were murdered by a lone gunman.
Also at the meeting was John Edwards, police chief from Oak Creek, Wis., where six people were killed in a shooting rampage at a Sikh temple last August; Daniel Oates, police chief at Aurora, Colo., where a gunman shot and killed 12 moviegoers last July; and Robert Villasenor, police chief from Tucson, Ariz., near where then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and six others were killed by a gunman.
"The only way that we're going to be able to do everything that needs to be done is with the cooperation of Congress," Obama told the law enforcement officials. "And that means passing serious laws that restrict the access and availability of assault weapons and magazine clips that aren't necessary for hunters and sportsmen and those responsible gun owners who are out there. It means that we are serious about universal background checks. It means that we take seriously issues mental health and school safety."
The president said meeting participants came from a wide cross-section of communities across the country. "If law enforcement officials who are dealing with this stuff every single day can come to some basic consensus in terms of steps that we need to take, Congress is going to be paying attention to them and we'll be able to make progress." Earlier this month, Kehoe called for a ban on assault weapons and limits on high-capacity gun magazines. He was not immediately available for comment after his White House meeting.
Jay Carney, White House press secretary, characterized the session as "very productive."
"This all is part of the effort the president has undertaken to press forward on common-sense measures that can help reduce the scourge of gun violence in this country," he said.
Obama and the 13 police chiefs and sheriffs were joined at the White House meeting by Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and Bruce Reed, Biden's chief of staff.
Recalling Biden's meetings earlier this month with groups interested in gun issues, Obama told the law enforcement officials that "no group is more important for us to listen to than our law enforcement leaders -- they are where the rubber hits the road."
He said he wanted to hear from the chiefs and sheriffs about "what will make the biggest difference to prevent something like Newtown or Oak Creek from happening again."
Obama also said the focus on gun violence should not be limited to mass shootings but also what happens on "a day-in-day-out basis in places like Chicago or Philadelphia, where young people are victims of gun violence every single day."
That raises the question of what are we doing to make sure that we've got the strongest possible law enforcement teams on the ground, Obama said, indicating the need to hire more cops, provide training and make sure that rural sheriff's offices have access to resources.


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Niall Harrison has posted links to reviews of the novels shortlisted for the Clarke Award this year, and I looked at it and thought, "Didn't I review Oh Pure and Radiant Heart somewhere other than in the best-of-the-year article for Locus Online?" And then I realized that, indeed, I had, but that the review was not available online, having been published in the print edition of Locus. Here, then, for the sake of completism (or something) is that review:
Lydia Millet builds her fourth novel from a simple extrapolation: What would happen if J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, three of the designers and developers of the atomic bomb, were to find themselves transported from 1945 to the beginning of the twenty-first century?
Millet fully explores this premise while balancing humor and horror, fantasy and reality, history and imagination in a book that is compulsively readable, but also thought-provoking and even disturbing. While the central plot of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart is ragged and picaresque, it is fueled by quiet moments, telling details, longings and dreams. Caricatures seem to live in every corner of the novel's landscape, but there are characters here, too, amidst the chaos of a world that, to the timeslipped physicists, comes to feel like a slow-burning apocalypse of vulgar language and dead reason.
The most appealing character is the central one, Ann, a reference librarian who is the first to discover Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Szilard, and to invite them into her home, where her gardener husband , Ben, tolerates as much as he can, until the scientists take them to Hiroshima in search of meaning and logic in the history of all the destructions unleashed by equations that had once seemed so promising. But the twenty-first century is not a century of meaning and logic, and so a pothead millionaire scoops up the ragtag team and lets them fill the hole left when Jerry Garcia's particles were accelerated into the great concert in the sky. Before anybody knows quite how it happened, Ann and Ben and the atomic trinity have a gaggle of groupies to follow them to the Marshall Islands and the deserts of Nevada. Ann thinks she's on a highway to a meaningful life, but Ben remains skeptical of everything, and watches helplessly as his marriage is sacrificed to a circus of lost souls.
The second half of the book turns the circus into a cult, with Christian fundamentalists branding Oppenheimer as a new messiah, blithely ignoring that he claims to be a Jewish physicist who likes fine bourbon and Eastern philosophers. Meanwhile, Fermi seeks peace in a mental institution, and Szilard takes the group toward Washington, D.C., where he hopes a demonstration of logic will convince the world to get rid of its nuclear stockpiles. The fundamentalists are more interested in Rapture than peace, and by the time the scientists realize that their faith in reason is dwarfed by their followers' faith in eternal paradise, it is, once again, too late.
Throughout the novel, the ever-more-absurd events are told in counterpoint with bits of information apparently meant to remind us that while the fiction may be fun and games, the reality is not. In the first third of the book, the information is about the real scientists, the ones who were not skipped ahead half a century. The rest of the book gives us fragments of the history and consequences of nuclear proliferation, sometimes in paragraphs, and sometimes just a sentence or two, a pause to pop the balloons of our amusement: "It has been estimated that fallout from American atmospheric testing between 1945 and 1963 has caused or will cause fatal cancers in between seventy thousand and eight hundred thousand people in the U.S. and around the world. Soviet testing likely has yielded a similar number."
It is rare that such a collage of modes and tones works as well as it does in Oh Pure and Radiant Heart. While the main narrative unifies the disparate elements, every few pages we seem to switch to a different kind of book: domestic dramas metamorphose into absurdist epics, science fiction becomes fantasy, meditative nature scenes give way to moments that seem ripped from a political thriller. Remarkably, this jumping around is seldom jarring, because Millet has a firm control of tone and structure, and so the disparate pieces harmonize, and it is a pleasure to follow Ann, Ben, and the physicists through all their mishaps. Some of the pleasures lessen in the last third of the novel, because the loose ends must be tied up and resolution brought to bear on it all, so some scenes feel included simply to move everything from point X to point Y. The final chapter redeems it all, though, because where many writers would let the last pages slip toward desperate polemic, or would create a finish that was thin and tidy, Millet takes us away from the explosions and gunplay, adding complexity, emotion, and mystery in final pages that are both satisfying and unsettling.


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Why Does Economy Grow More Under Democratic Presidents?
The U.S. economy has performed better since World War II when the president is a Democrat rather than a Republican, two prominent Princeton University economists conclude. The reasons, they say, involve more luck than successful policies.
Over the past 64 years and 16 presidential terms, the U.S. grew at an average rate of 4.35% when a Democrat was in the White House and at a 2.54% when a Republican was, a gap the economists call "astoundingly large."
The research was done by Alan Blinder, a macroeconomist who served in the Clinton White House and has advised several Democratic candidates, and Mark Watson, an econometrician who hasn't dabbled in partisan policies.
"Democrats would no doubt like to attribute the large Democrat-Republican growth gap to better macroeconomic policies, but the data do not support such a claim," the professors conclude in a new 55-page working paper, "Presidents and the Economy: A Forensic Investigation."
"Democratic presidents have experienced, on average, better oil shocks than Republicans, a better legacy of productivity shocks and more optimistic consumer expectations," they conclude.
Professors Blinder and Watson identify three factors that stand out statistically in their attempt to explain why the economy does better with a Democratic presidents. Together they account for somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of the growth gap:
– Oil price shocks explain between one-eighth and one-fourth of the Democrat-Republican difference in growth rates, and tend to occur when Republicans are in the White House. They don't blame President Richard Nixon for the first OPEC oil shock or President Jimmy Carter for the second, but suggest that George H.W. Bush's Gulf War and George W. Bush's Iraq war were policy decisions that affected oil prices.
– Surges in productivity, or output per hour, account for about one-quarter of the gap. "As with oil shocks, we consider them as mainly reflecting luck," they say.
– Swings in consumer confidence explain about a quarter of the Democrat-Republican gap between 1962 (when the University of Michigan's survey data begins) and 2013. This, they say, "comes tantalizingly close to a self-fulfilling prophecy in which consumers correctly expect the economy to do better, and make that happen by purchasing more consumer durables. But direct measures showing increasing optimism after Democrats are elected are hard to find."
Professors Blinder and Watson consider and reject a long list of other explanations for the growth gap between Democratic and Republican presidents – including whether the president has previously been a member of Congress or a governor, is younger or is taller. ("Growth is higher under younger and taller presidents, but…the differences are not statistically significant," they say.) The difference between growth rates when Democrats control Congress and Republicans do is trivial, they find. It's the president's party that matters. They reject the assertion that Democrats inherit stronger economies from Republican predecessors than vice versa.
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A Gainesville teenager has won an initial ruling after filing a complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations alleging discrimination by an Oaks Mall clothing store that would not hire him because he was 17 years old.
Think of age discrimination and most likely older workers will come to mind as the target, especially in this age of downsizing.
But a Gainesville teenager has won an initial ruling after filing a complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations alleging discrimination by an Oaks Mall clothing store that would not hire him because he was 17 years old.
Oak Hall School senior Colin Smith said he now plans to pursue a court case against the store Buckle, which cited age when declining to hire him last summer.
"Youth discrimination has never really had a fair chance — no one has really ever taken a look at it," said Smith, now 18. "I am going to call the clerk of court ... and petition for a hearing."
Orlando attorney Angela Duerden, who represents Buckle, declined to comment on the case.
Buckle sells clothing aimed at teens and young adults. Smith said he applied for a job last summer and, when he did not hear from the manager for two weeks, called to ask about the job.
Smith said he was told that he would not get a job because he was under 18, the age of job qualification for the company. Shortly after that, Smith said, he got a job at the Hollister clothing store in The Oaks Mall.
After researching the issue, Smith filed a complaint with the state commission.
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Buckle also said that the Department of Labor had fined it for allowing minors to operate a trash compactor, so the company voluntarily agreed to stop employing minors in positions that require that.
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Commission spokesman Frank Penela said the agency does not track cases by age but added cases involving discrimination against teens are rare or possibly unprecedented.
"Anecdotally, we cannot remember having one," he said. "If we have had one, it hasn't been in the last five years."
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said federal law prohibiting age discrimination applies only to people age 40 and older, so the agency has no statistics on age discrimination against teenagers.
Smith said he has already had one mediation session with Buckle. If Smith files suit, the judge would order more mediation before the case proceeds, he added.
While Smith can collect compensatory damages should he win in court, he said his main goal is to try to prevent job discrimination against other teens.
"It's really not about a remedy for me," he said. "It's that if there is some kid out there and wants a job to make money to put himself through college or whatever that need may be, and is constantly being denied an opportunity to work when in reality he can still perform that job."


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Tropicana Atlantic City
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Tropicana Atlantic City is a 24-hour gaming destination located on the beach and Boardwalk. This premier resort offers over 2,300 guestrooms and is home to The Quarter, a 200,000-square-foot (18,580 square meters) entertainment complex featuring 25 restaurants, 25 shops, 18 bars, 2 pools, and a spa.
Entertainment venues in The Quarter include Anthem, Boogie Nights, the Tropicana Showroom, the IMAX Theater, Cuba Libre, Ri-Ra, Planet Rose, the Family Fun Station, and Firewaters.
The Tropicana's mega-casino includes 125,935 square-feet (11,699 square meters) of gaming space with 132 tables, a 22-table poker room, and 2,276 slots. Open 24 hours a day, the casino floor provides guests with continuous action and exciting promotions.
This hotel offers complimentary wireless Internet access, an indoor pool, and outdoor pool, both with ocean views. A fitness room and spa tub are also on site, including the Atlanticare Fitness Center. During the summer, lounge chairs, umbrellas, and towels are available for guest use at the beach and pool; surcharges may apply.
The on-site spa offers saunas, massages, facials, manicures, spa pedicures, and hair care are available. Additionally, Bluemercury Apothecary brings an extensive selection of cosmetics and skincare products including Fresh, Frederic Fekkai, and Bumble & Bumble brands.
Dining options range from casual to gourmet and include a beachfront buffet, steakhouse with ocean views, an Italian restaurant, and a marketplace; The Quarter houses several restaurants, many of which feature live entertainment (see Dining section below for details).
Business amenities include 122,000 square feet (11,334 square meters) of meeting space, from boardrooms to ballrooms, and even a theater. The hotel has a staff of certified professionals to handle meeting and event planning. Guests can contact the hotel directly about meeting planning, using the number included in the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Casino
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 18
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Business center
- Conference space
- Porter/bellhop
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Express check-out
- Coffee shop or café
- Beach sun loungers
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Health club
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Computer station
- Nightclub
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa services on site
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 20
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Pool umbrellas
- Beach towels
- Total number of rooms - 2379
- Number of floors - 55
- Arcade/game room
- Multilingual staff
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Arcade/game room
- Refrigerator (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Video-game console
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (24 hours)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Television
- Iron/ironing board
- Cable TV service
- Number of bathrooms -
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Adam Good Crab Shack & Sports Bar – This 240-seat restaurant with bar area and big-screen TV features crab-shack style atmosphere complete with brown paper spread across tables, hammers for whacking shells, bibs, and frosty pitchers of beer. It has a menu of seasonal shellfish dishes; crab selection including Dungeness, Blue Claw, Snow and King; and rustic-style raw bar.
Adam Good Deli - This mom-and-pop style deli serves overstuffed deli sandwiches piled high with meats or cheeses, homemade soups, and salads. Dine in or take out.
Carmine's - This spot is based on the New York City institution that originated the family-style, Italian-restaurant concept. In a city with 21,000-plus restaurants, it can take 3-4 months to get reservations. This site (in The Quarter at Tropicana) marks the establishment's first-ever venture outside of the Big Apple.
Cuba Libre - The Cuban restaurant experience is recreated with classic restoration of a 1940s Havana street scene, including antique mahogany and oak-handcrafted bars. The menu combines contemporary Cuban cuisine and traditional dishes - flavorful and savory, not generally spicy.
Hooters - This restaurant is 1 of more than 330 Hooters restaurants in 43 states and 10 foreign countries.
The Palm - The restaurant's first foray into New Jersey, this spot is renowned for celebrity regulars. Walls showcase caricatures. Prime steaks, lobsters, and traditional Italian dishes are served. It also has an acclaimed wine list.
P.F. Chang's - With a bistro setting, this restaurant features Chinese fusion cuisine. It is P.F. Chang's first and only Jersey Shore presence.
Rí~Rá - For its seventh location, the award-winning Rí~Rá chose The Quarter, its first foray into the Mid-Atlantic states. It is famous for meticulously recreating the Irish Pub experience by exclusively importing authentic pubs from Ireland and reassembling them in the US, board by board, pint glass by pint glass. Authentic Irish food is served.
Il Verdi - This restaurant offers gourmet dining with an emphasis on Northern Italian cuisine such as osso buco and rack of lamb. The candlelit room has white linen table settings. Chef's Table seating allows guests to watch the chef in action. It is open for lunch and dinner and located on second floor of hotel's North Tower.
Golden Dynasty - Chinese cuisine, including specialties of seafood, chicken, and beef, are served in a semi-formal setting. It is located on second floor of hotel's North Tower.
Seaside Café - Located on the second floor of hotel's South Tower, this come-as-you-are 24-hour café has a diner-style menu, including burgers, seafood, soups, and snacks.
Fiesta Buffet - Enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner with wide views of the beach and boardwalk. Dress code is casual attire.
Marketplace - Find venues like Hooters, Corky's Ribs & BBQ, Fire Waters, James Salt Water Taffy, Starbucks Coffee, Adam Good Deli, Boardwalk Favorites.
Planet Rose - Sing the night away at this karaoke bar.
Sky Beach Club - An on-site dayclub.
Chef Garces's Olon
Perry's Pizza
Chickie and Pete's Crabhouse & Sports Bar
Casa Taco & Tequila Bar
Boogie Nights
Ivan Kane's Kiss Kiss Nightclub
Wet Willie's Tangos Lounge
10 North Lounge
Shopping at The Quarter includes everything from fun and funky offerings to classic stores that have been around for close to two centuries. Clothes, hats, jewelry, fragrances, gifts, and souvenirs abound. The Quarter is a popular shopping venue and includes the following stores:
A Time For Wine - This store combines 2 of life's pleasures - wine and smoke - with spirits, cigars, and accessories from around the world.
Bluemercury Apothecary - Here, you'll find an extensive selection of cosmetics and skincare products.
Erwin Pearl - This store sells fine jewelry.
Essentials - This gift shop, located on the casino floor, has souvenirs, snacks, and sundries.
Francesca's Collections - Fashionable women's clothing and accessories can be found here.
Godiva Chocolatier - Belgium-style chocolate is offered at this premium shop.
Hat Emporium - Shop for hats for both men and women.
Havana Sundries - Basics from candy and tobacco to newspapers and beverages are offered. Postcards, sunglasses, souvenirs, gifts, and items with the Tropicana logo are offered as well.
IMAX Theatre - Catch the latest block buster at this movie theater.
James Salt Water Taffy - Since the 1880's, James Salt Water Taffy has been a seashore tradition. Guests can see how chocolate is made and watch the salt water taffy being pulled.
Lick - This candy shop delights with international candies and souvenir novelties.
Mrs. Fields Cookies - Head here for a variety of baked goods.
The Old Farmer's Almanac Store - This shop embodies the old-fashioned charm that has been an American cultural icon for more than 200 years.
Swarovski - Items of cut crystal are featured.
Talk of the Walk - This family-owned boutique provides personalized service and features contemporary fashions for women.
Tropicana Lobby Market - Guests can find practical travel essentials and a prime selection of Atlantic City souvenirs.
White House/Black Market - Romantic clothing, lingerie, accessories, jewelry, and gifts are offered in classic black-and-white only.
Zephyr Gallery - This shop has a craft gallery, furniture, gifts and home accessories.
Zeytinia Gourmet Food & Marketplace - This multi-level establishment features gourmet offerings.
Nearby Things to Do
Tropicana Atlantic City offers 2 pools (1 indoor, 1 outdoor, both with ocean views) and a spa tub. A fitness room and massage services are available for a surcharge.
The Atlantic City beach generally has small rolling waves and is popular with sunbathers and swimmers during the summer. Ocean activities include sailing, surf and pier fishing, sea kayaking, and power boating. The Boardwalk teems with joggers and bicyclists during the warmer months.
Nearby golf courses include Brigantine Golf Links (6 miles/9.6 kilometers) and Harbor Pines Golf Club (12 miles/19.3 kilometers).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
Spa Services
Bluemercury Spa is one of the top spas in Atlantic City, offering skincare treatments, therapeutic massages, and a selection of signature luxury body treatments.
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 10 PM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25.0 per day.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per night
- Resort fee: USD 22.36 per accommodation, per night
- Pool access
- Internet access
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 4.99 and USD 18.95 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 10 per stay
- Valet parking fee: USD 15 per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25.0 per day
- Facilities fee: USD 10 per person, per day and includes use of:
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We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus has announced the return of the ever-popular, annual holiday concert "Messiah," presented by M&T Bank. The BPC returns to the OLV Basilica after spending a year away due to restoration, performing live on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
This concert is not only a homecoming for the BPC, but for the guest musicians as well.
Dr. Gerald Gray, associate professor of voice at the State University of New York at Fredonia, will lead the performance. As director of choral activities at Fredonia, he has established an annual holiday concert performing Bach's "Advent" and "Christmas" cantatas and Handel's "Messiah" with international players and soloists. Gray is also a finalist auditioning for the position of BPC music director.
Joining the performance are soloists Colleen Marcello (soprano), Victoria Vargas (mezzo-soprano), Joe Dan Harper (tenor) and Brian Zunner (bass). All soloists currently live in Western New York, except for Vargas, who is a graduate of SUNY Fredonia's music program. All have national, and some international, acclaim as performers and have spent time outside of this area perfecting and sharing their art.
A piece written in 1741, "Messiah" has become one of the most popular and beloved musical performances in Western music, not to mention its appeal at the holiday season. It celebrates the arrival of the Messiah, his death, and his subsequent resurrection by weaving together scripture from the King James Bible with melodies and chorales.
While this is not the first time Gray has conducted "Messiah," it will be his first performance of the piece with the BPC.
Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased online at www.BPChorus.org, by phone at 716-833-6642 and at the BPO box office. Group discounts are also available for 15 or more.
The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus is an accomplished symphonic choir representing a multi-generational membership of dedicated vocal musicians. As an independent, non-profit organization, the BPC produces an annual concert series and enjoys frequent collaborations with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
The BPC is an independent, non-profit organization known widely as the principal guest chorus of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. An auditioned chorus, whose members include volunteer and professional singers, the BPC appears at various locations throughout Western New York and has performed in Germany and the Czech Republic. The symphonic-sized professional chorus represents a diverse membership who love to sing and are committed to enhancing the cultural life of Western New York. The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2012.
As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the Grammy Award-winning BPO, under the leadership of music director JoAnn Falletta, presents more than 120 classics, pops and youth concerts each year and reaches more than 40,000 students per year (K-12) across all eight counties of Western New York. Since 1940, the orchestra's permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Site with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the U.S.
The BPO has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall as a participant in the prestigious Spring for Music festival in 2013. This will be the orchestra's 24th appearance at Carnegie Hall and its first since Falletta led the orchestra in an appearance there in June 2004.
Pictured is "Messiah" by Enid Bloch (2010).


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Long version of the story: This month, Adobe decided to stop selling boxed software and to go with an all-subscription model. That's fine with me, at least in theory: I understand the appeal of a subscription model from the viewpoint of the software vendor (and for certain types of customers). I have actually been on a Creative Cloud subscription for the past 11 months. But I'm not really a heavy Creative Cloud user (I use Fireworks 3-4 times a week, Dreamweaver maybe once a month, and Photoshop a few times a year). Since Adobe is end-of-lifeing Fireworks, I'm not getting enough value to justify a $348/year subscription cost, particularly since Sketch appears to be a good-enough alternative to Fireworks for me.
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This page also unhelpfully doesn't contain your order number, which Adobe's customer service needs to kill your subscription. In addition, they make you talk to a human to cancel your plan. But before you can do that, you get to go through their automated Customer Support shark-infested moat (which, unhelpfully, redirects you back to your Creative Cloud Plan Information page, which in turn directs you to contact Adobe Customer Support in an endless loop). Genius.
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So, from this, it's clear why they require you to talk to a customer service agent; it's a sales tactic intended to keep you on their subscription plan. But there's a cost to this: my time, a resource I can never get back. When a corporation wastes my time needlessly, I remember it for many years (looking at you, United Airlines and Sony). A process that should take about 10 seconds (log in, find the link to cancel your subscription, and click it) takes about 15 minutes. And this delay is, in a sense, punitive: Adobe hopes you will lose interest and back off the cancellation process if the cancellation process is sufficiently painful; making the cancellation process easier costs them money in the form of lost subscriptions.
But for Adobe, there are risks to this strategy as well. In years past, AOL (the original gangster of the shark-infested-moat subscription business model) got itself into serious legal trouble by making it difficult or impossible to cancel the service in a reasonable period of time. I'm certain that Adobe will find itself in the same place if it doesn't address its process for canceling subscriptions as the company moves to a 100% subscription-based model.


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Conference officials on Wednesday announced a three-year deal with 1st Mariner Arena, located two blocks off the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.
The Colonial Athletic Association found a central location for its men's basketball tournament and that makes a longer trip north for UNCW in 2014.
Conference officials announced Wednesday a three-year deal with 1st Mariner Arena, located two blocks off the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The CAA's 23-year affiliation with the Richmond Coliseum ends after the 2013 tournament, a seven-team affair that doesn't include the Seahawks because they are serving a one-year suspension due to low Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores.
Athletic director Jimmy Bass believes Seahawks fans will make the 400-mile journey to support their team in 2014.
"Our fans care about progress," Bass said. "If the basketball team can continue to improve and get back to playing for championships, I think our fans will support it. You can get there by car, train, plane. Our fans have proven they will travel."
UNCW had a large, raucous contingent in the Richmond Coliseum for championship victories in the 2000s.
The new venue will make an easier trip for the majority of the conference, as seven of the 10 CAA campuses are within 250 miles of Baltimore. The outliers are Northeastern (Boston), UNCW and new member College of Charleston. CAA schools also have more than 370,000 alumni living within 100 miles of Baltimore, according to commissioner Tom Yeager.
"Baltimore's renowned attractions will captivate our fans during tournament weekend," Yeager said. "And the electricity of championship college basketball will bring tremendous excitement to the area."
The tournament thrived in Richmond in recent years, primarily because of success from hometown VCU and Old Dominion, located 90 miles away in Norfolk. More than 42,000 fans attended each of the last five four-day tournaments, including a record 47,883 in 2012. The Sunday semifinal sessions routinely sold out the nearly 12,000-seat venue.
But the shifting winds of college athletics whipped through the conference last spring. VCU already has departed for the Atlantic 10, and ODU will head to Conference USA in 2013-14. Losing those Virginia mainstays prompted CAA leadership and university athletic directors to consider other sites for its flagship event.
"There's no denying the impact that VCU and ODU had on the tournament," Yeager said.
Bass, who chairs the CAA athletic directors council, said conference presidents and ADs wanted to "rebrand the league and expand the tournament."
Baltimore and Richmond were the two finalists, Yeager said. CAA presidents voted in favor of moving the tournament last week, what he labeled a "strong decision."
"The people that are making the decision don't live in Richmond," Yeager added. "They're looking at it from a different perspective as to what they think is best for the conference as a whole."
Towson athletic director Mike Waddell played a significant role in helping the Baltimore group organize its bid.
The 1st Mariner Arena has 11,800 seats for basketball, but the CAA commissioner admitted it's hard to gauge how many seats will be filled now that two of the main draws have moved on.
"We're a new group," he said. "Baltimore is a bigger stage with brighter lights. Its reputation as a destination city speaks for itself."
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